The Opelousas courier., 1887-08-06
The parasol must correspond With the

Inc parasol must correspond with the
dress this summer.
open work and lace tissues are largely
utilized for midsummer wraps.
Bastles grow larger, but in better
form and more compressible and elastic.
Jet is quite the most fashionable Of
all trimmings, as well as about the most
costly.
ihere is no end to the variety in hats.
their brims, crowns, and trimmings. This
summer.
Blush, greenish and pinkish grays are
much in favor, both for dress and house.
hold decorations.
Brocades for dress materials have de-
cidedly not gone out though many fash
ION writers say SC.
sonnet are perched higher on the
head, while the trimmings are piled in
front, more than ever.
women are wearing plush mourning
jackets cut in exact imitation of +ha
masculine smoking coat.
The mania for tight sleeves is over.
The waist is the objective point Of the
tight squeeze in dress now.
Busties are so big they make dresse
shorter in the back. Not a pretty style,
but it is q fact for all that.
The mutton leg sleeve, tight to tho
elbow and pulled above to the shoulder
seam or arm hole, grows in favor.
1t was predicted in the carly spring
that bonncts would be larger and trim
inings higher and more pyramidal than
last season.
The ribbons and flowers worn with a
white or cream lace toilet should ALWAYS
correspond with the color of silk sin
worn under it.
Oid-fashioncd corn color is again in
favor for summer frocks, or for ribbons
and accessories of the toilet TO be worn
with white dresses.
English tailors' j,ckets arc made very
plair and very tight, but those of Pin
gut and Worth are more loosely fitted,
and are deliberately trimmed.
Figures and dots make their appear
anee among the checks, plaids, aud
stripes Of one kind or another that
flood the dry goods counters at the mo-
ment.
Panels of plaid silk are used with
more or less good effect on plain fabrics.
1t was hardly a harmonious combination,
and certainly not so stylish as a whole
costume of the plaid.
CoIored chips are among the stylish
hats and bonnets, and may be made to
have q very pretty effect, or quite the
contrary. Green is the most stylish
color in these straws.
Nothing is more becoming to the face
than The gauze bonnets which arc SO
stylish this season. Tulle lace and
metal gauzes are used in the construc-
ton, and grasses and delicate blossoms
finish their decoration.
The cottage bonnet made OF wires is
of white null or of delicate lace, and
for garden parties, class day and like
festive occasions there is nothing in this
seasons styles as pretty OF appropriate
for young ladies.
On black bonnets of lace or Neapoli-
tan braid where lace is used as a trim
ming, it is a pretty fashion to have a
throat bow of the laco edge md . into a
pretty rosette. This is newer than rib
bon strings and more becoming.
The only reason black silks are not
more worn is that a reliable black silk is
about the hardest material to get, no
matter how much you are willing to pay
for it, which does not speak well for tho
honesty of manufacturers.
~Interplaited straw, worked with gold,
are new fancies in dress garniture. Many
Of the handsomcst gold trimmings have
the pattern outlined with fiiamenfsi OF
straw, almost 1mpcrceptible. but still
adding greatly to the effect.